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Looking for feedback on Happi. Free hosted infrastructure software

1 points by Reece-Happi 9y ago

We have recently launched Happi and want your feedback to make Happi as good as it can be. Happi's a software tool where you can find, buy and network servers, switches etc to create your own hosting environment. Happi is free to use, and at the moment you don't even need to sign up. http://www.get-happi.co.uk/

stephenr 9y ago
> Happi is free to use How do you make money then?
- seanwasere 9y ago
  by forming supplier cartels
- Reece-Happi 9y ago
  Where it "makes money" for us is a bit of a long story - our hope is that it becomes a standard method for buying and deploying all hosted infrastructures (and later, application provisioning). As one of the partners plugged into it, we think we're pretty good at what we do, in the region where we do it - so we should live (or die) on the quality of our service and range of our products, and therefore we're hopefully we would be the chosen service provider where we operate. In a nutshell, we hope to grow through 'indirect growth', in regions where I/we provide the actual services.
cheeaun 9y ago
It's weird that the site still store cookies after I decline
- Reece-Happi 9y ago
  Just looked into it and found out the only thing that gets saved is the opt out.
brudgers 9y ago
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html I am curious about the nature of the "partner" relationships Happi lists on its site. It's a lot of logos of many well known companies...for me, more than would inspire confidence. Good luck.
- Reece-Happi 9y ago
  Hi, I will definitely check that out. A partner is anyone we are working with. We want more so if you have specific tech vendors or service providers, let me know and we will reach out. We have even more in our next major update. Thanks so much for your feedback, we are getting loads of people onto our site but having it open and free to use limits us the ability to chase for feedback.
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1 points by Reece-Happi 9y ago

stephenr 9y ago

> Happi is free to use How do you make money then?

seanwasere 9y ago
by forming supplier cartels
Reece-Happi 9y ago
Where it "makes money" for us is a bit of a long story - our hope is that it becomes a standard method for buying and deploying all hosted infrastructures (and later, application provisioning). As one of the partners plugged into it, we think we're pretty good at what we do, in the region where we do it - so we should live (or die) on the quality of our service and range of our products, and therefore we're hopefully we would be the chosen service provider where we operate. In a nutshell, we hope to grow through 'indirect growth', in regions where I/we provide the actual services.

cheeaun 9y ago

It's weird that the site still store cookies after I decline

Reece-Happi 9y ago
Just looked into it and found out the only thing that gets saved is the opt out.

brudgers 9y ago

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html I am curious about the nature of the "partner" relationships Happi lists on its site. It's a lot of logos of many well known companies...for me, more than would inspire confidence. Good luck.

Reece-Happi 9y ago
Hi, I will definitely check that out. A partner is anyone we are working with. We want more so if you have specific tech vendors or service providers, let me know and we will reach out. We have even more in our next major update. Thanks so much for your feedback, we are getting loads of people onto our site but having it open and free to use limits us the ability to chase for feedback.
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